The police continue to protect “it-tifla ta’ Mintoff”; stabbing case treated as “top secret”
A front-page story in The Sunday Times reports, shockingly, that the police are treating the near-fatal stabbing of a Romanian man by Yana Mintoff or her son, Daniel Mainwaring, as “top secret”.
Their victim was kept in the intensive care unit at the state general hospital for several days, and he remains hospitalised, though he has since been moved to a recovery ward. Gheorghe Popa was stabbed viciously in the abdomen by either Mintoff Bland or Mainwaring – the only other two people in the room – and organs, including his stomach, were punctured.
The night of the stabbing, police who arrived on the scene found Popa up in a tree, covered in blood.
The Sunday Times reports:
Sources from within the police force told The Sunday Times of Malta that very little was being said about this case in the depot’s corridors and very little had emerged on any headway made by the police investigating the incident.
Other police sources said the investigators had not yet managed to collect enough evidence that would see them presenting a water-tight case in a court of law.
What corruption. Who do they think they are fooling? One man is stabbed and almost died. There are only another two people in the room when he is stabbed, so it follows that one of them stabbed him. And the police say that they don’t have enough evidence to prosecute.
Because when the perpetrator is either Dom Mintoff’s daughter or his grandson, you need special evidence. Everybody else who stabs somebody in a fight is hauled up to court within hours, and the police don’t play any Inspector Clouseau games because they don’t need to.
So Yana Mintoff and Daniel Mainwaring join the illustrious list of people protected from prosecution: John Dalli (corruption and trading in influence) and his daughters (scamming American pensioners), Joe Gaffarena’s son-in-law (murder of his wife’s lover), Konrad Mizzi (corruption), Keith Schembri (where do we begin?), Mark Gaffarena (corruption and trading in influence)…I’m not bothered to carry on. This island has gone berserk.
Compare and contrast – no prompt action or magisterial inquiry in Mintoff stabbing case